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Lectures on 
Prophecy. 



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H. C. Morrison. D. D., 





Author of 'World Tour of Evangelism/' *'Life 

Sketches and Sermons,*' **The Second 

Coming/* **Romanism and Ruin," 

"The 'Two Lawyers/* "Thoughts 

For The Thoughtful/* *'The 

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CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

LECTURE 1 5 

The Wisdom of The Prophetic 
Method, Etc. 

LECTURE II 30 

Prophecies Concerning The De- 
struction OF The Cities and 
Nations Who Persecuted 
The Jews. 

LECTURE III 52 

Prophecies Concerning the Com- 
ing AND Sufferings of Christ. 

LECTURE IV 67 

Prophecies Concerning the Gos- 
pel Dispensation and the 
Second Coming of Christ. 

LECTURE V 92 

The Glorious Reign of Christ. 



PREFACE. 

The contents of this book were origi- 
nally prepared and delivered in the 
form of lectures, to the students of sev- 
eral colleges. We are sending it forth 
trusting it may prove suggestive and 
helpful to all v^ho may read it. 

H. C. Morrison. 



LECTURE I. 

THE WISDOM OF THE PROPHETIC METHOD. 
THE DEVELOPMENT, THE DISPER- 
SION, AND THE RESTORATION 
OF THE HEBREWS. 

It is impossible to account for crea- 
tion without admitting the existence of 
a creator. The universe is so vast, the 
movement of its numerous planets so 
harmonious and perfect, the forces that 
hold the millions of suns in their proper 
adjustment to each other are so power- 
ful, the evidences of intelligent design 
are so plainly written everywhere that 
the thoughtful mind cannot believe that 
this vast creation is a mere accident. 
Such an accident is unthinkable. This 
universe, with its almost innumerable 
worlds, so harmoniously adjusted to 
each other and moving in such perfect 
order, could not exist without a creator. 

It is just as impossible to acount for 
man's existence without a creator as it 
is impossible to account for the universe 
without a creator. It is unthinlcaible 

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that a God so infinitely great as the 
Creator of this universe should create 
immortal, moral beings without under- 
taking to reveal Himself to those beings, 
and something of their capacity, duty 
and destiny; something of the laws 
with which He proposes to govern, ad- 
just and regulate the social relation that 
should exist for the happiness, welfare, 
and progress of such beings. 

This being true, it is reasonable to 
expect just such a revelation as we have 
in the Bible. Intelligent beings would 
naturally desire a revelation from their 
Creator bearing indisputable creden- 
tials; a revelation capable of positive 
proof that it is from God ; a revelation 
that can toe relied upon without any sort 
of hesitation or fear that it is an impo- 
sition placed upon them by their fellow 
beings, and without divine origin and 
authority. The Bible is such a book. 

Infinite wisdom could not have chosen 
a wiser method of revelation than the 
prophetic method. The prophecies con- 
tained in the Old Testament Scriptures, 
so wonderfully and accurately fulfilled 
in the unfoldinrr chapters of human his- 
tory, are positive and infallible proof 



The Prophetic Method. 7 

that the men who wrote the Bible were 
divinely inspired. 

The prophetic method places the Bi- 
ble beyond tlie reach of successful con- 
tradiction. It would have been impos- 
sible for the ancient prophets to have 
so accurately forecast the coming events 
of history without inspiration from 
God. They could not have ibuilt the 
wheel of prophecy so that its cogs 
would fit so perfectly into the cogs of 
the onmoving wheel of history had God 
not revealed to them the coming events 
of the future. 

The prophetic method makes it im- 
possible for the Bible to grow old or ob- 
solete. It is so written that it can nev- 
er become a book of the past. Fulfilling 
prophecy, as the years go by, makes the 
Bible not only a book of today, but a 
book of tomorrow also. The devout and 
intelligent student of prophecy may 
have a good general notion of what the 
future contains and conduct himself ac- 
cordingly. 

Standing on the mountain peaks of 
inspired prophecy he looks back along 
the highway of history, and beholds 
with delight how accurately prophecy 



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has been fulfilled. Looking into the Bi- 
ble and then looking on world condi- 
tions about him, he beholds the mar- 
shalling of the hosts of coming events 
falling into line and marching forward 
to the fulfillment of the predictions of 
the lancient seers of God, and his faith 
in divine revelation is unshaken and 
restful. 

In studying the Bible it is well to re- 
member that it is largely the history of 
the Hebrew people. Soon after the ac- 
count of creation and the flood, we have 
the calling out of Abraham and the de- 
velopment of a family, the growth of 
that family into a tribe, the going of 
that tribe into Egypt, the increasing of 
that tribe into a multitude. Then Moses 
appears and leads that multitude out 
of bondage into the wilderness, Joshua 
brings them into Canaan, and they be- 
come a great nation. Their religious 
forms, ceremonies and sacrifices, their 
laws and customs, their priests, judges 
and kings, their wars, victories and de- 
feats, their backslidings and reclama- 
tions, their history, proverbs and 
psalms, their prophecies concerning 
their future, the coming Messiah, the 



The Prophetic Method. 9 

nations that surrounded them, and the 
final redemption of the race and tsetting 
up of the kingdom of God in the world 
make up the Old Testament. It is in 
this way that God has chosen to reveal 
Himself, to show to us His attributes, 
His will, His purposes and methods 
with men. In the history of the He^ 
brew people He has revealed to men the 
blessedness of obedience and holiness 
and the curse of rebellion and sin. 

We wish to call your attention to a 
few general divisions of the prophecies : 

First. Prophecies concerning the de- 
velopment of the Hebrew nation. 

Second. Prophecies concerning the 
dispersion of the Hebrew people among 
the nations of the earth. 

Third. Prophecies relating to the 
restoration of the Hebrew people to Pal- 
estine. 

Fourth. Prophecies pointing out the 
destruction of the nations, cities and 
peoples who persecuted the Hebrew 
people. 

Fifth. Prophecies concerning the 
coming and sufferings of Christ. 

Sixth. Prophecies concerning the 
Gospel Dispensation, the second coming, 
and the glorious reign of Christ, 



10 Lectures on Prophecy. 

You will see at once that in five lec- 
tures, with so wide a range of prophecy 
and history, that we shall not be able 
to treat this great subject with any sort 
of thoroughness, but shall try to make 
what we say suggestive. One of the 
great objects in lecturing to students is 
not so much to give them thorough and 
ex^haustive information, as it is to 
arouse within them a desire to seek af- 
ter information. We are not to under- 
take to pack your mind with facts, but 
to try to arouse your mind to a studious 
search after facts. What we desire to 
produce in you is mental stimulation — 
brain hunger — giving you some helpful 
suggestions that may interest you in, 
and introduce you to one of the greatest 
subjects that can possibly claim your at- 
tention. 

The first scripture to which we call 
your attention is in Genesis 12:1, 2, 3, 
verses: "Now the Lord had said unto 
Abram, get thee out of thy country, and 
from thy kindred, and from thy father's 
house, into a land that I will show thee: 
And I will make of thee a great nation, 
and I will bless thee and make thy name 
great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And 



The Prophetic Method. 11 

I will bless them that bless thee, and 
curse him that curseth thee; and in 
thee shall all the families of the earth be 
blessed." 

Notice the promise, "I will make thy 
name great." No infidel will deny that 
this promise has been kept. The name 
of Abraham is known and revered in 
all the Christian world, and among all 
Mohammedan peoples. His name has 
become great. Notice also, ''I will bless 
them that bless thee, and curse him that 
curseth thee." It is a historic fact that 
God's judgments have fallen upon the 
people who have persecuted the Jews. 

Notice again: "In thee shall all the 
families of the earth be blessed." This 
prophecy also lias been, and is being 
fulfilled. The children of Abraham 
wrote the Bible, both Old Testament and 
New. The children of Abraham organ- 
ized the Church under the Old Dispen- 
sation and under the Christian Dispen- 
sation. The children of Abraham fur- 
nished the prophets and the priests 
through the long procession of centur- 
ies leading up to the coming Messiah, 
and they furnished the first preachers 
of the gospel. Moses, Joshua, Joseph, 



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David, John the Baptist, John the Be- 
loved, and St. Paul were all the children 
of Abraham. The Christian civilization 
which has come into the world is a ful- 
fillment of the prophecy that, 'In thee 
shall all the families of the earth be 
blessed.'' 

We quote again from Genesis, Chap. 
17:7 and 8, ''And I will establish my 
covenant between thee and me, and thy 
seed after thee in their generations for 
an everlasting covenant, to be a God 
unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 
And I will give unto thee, and to thy 
seed after thee the land wherein thou 
art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, 
for an everlasting possession ; and I will 
be their God." 

We want you to notice that God's cov- 
enant with Abraham and his people is 
"an everlasting covenant." It is to 
abide forever. Notice also the land of 
Palestine is to be "'an everlasting pos- 
session." Infidelity, through the past 
centuries, has been sneering at this 
promise to the Israelites; they have 
been robbed of their land with no hu- 
man appearance of ever having it re- 
stored to them ; but the sneering infideJ 



The Prophetic Method. i3 

has not understood that the dispersion 
of the Hebrew people and the desolation 
of their land is also a fulfillment of a 
prophecy uttered by Hosea many cen- 
turies ago. In the third chapter, 4th 
and 5th verses of Hosea's prophecy we 
Yead, "For the children of Israei snail 
aJbide many days without a King, and 
without a prince, and without a sacri- 
fice and without an image, and without 
an ephod, and without teraphim. Af- 
terward shall the children of Israel re- 
turn, and seek the Lord their God, and 
and David their King; and shall fear 
the Lord and His goodness in the latter 
days/' 

We find a very remarkable prophecy 
concerning the upbuilding and develop- 
ment of the Hebrew people in Deut. 
7:6, 7, and 8 verses. 'Tor thou art a 
holy people unto the Lord thy God ; the 
Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a 
special people unto Himself, above all 
people that are upon the face of the 
earth. The Lord did not set His love 
upon you, nor choose you, because ye 
were more in number than any other 
people; for ye were the fewest of all 
people ; But because the Lord loved you. 



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and because He would keep the oath 
which He had sworn unto your fathers, 
hath the Lord brought you out with a 
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of 
the house of bondmen, from the land of 
Pharaoh, King of Egypt/' 

You will see here that God was deter- 
mined to keep His oath to Aibraham. 
He is keeping it and will keep it for- 
ever. The promises contained in the 
Bible to the Israelitish people cannot 
fail. 

THE DISPERSION OF THE HEBREW PEOPLE. 

With reference to the dispersion of 
the Hebrew people throughout the na- 
tions of the world, it is an interesting 
fact that before they had crossed into 
Canaan, Moses foresaw their apostasy 
and captivity, and gives a startling de- 
scription of the same in Deut. 28 : 49-53. 
"The Lord shall bring a nation against 
thee from far, from the end of the 
earth, as swift as the eagle's flight; a 
nation whose tongue thou shalt not un- 
derstand; a nation of fierce counte- 
nance, which shall not regard the per- 
son of the old, nor show favour to the 
young ; and he shalt eat the fruit of thy 
cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until 



The Prophetic Method. 15 

thou be destroyed ; which also shall not 
leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or 
the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy 
sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 
And he shall besiege thee in all thy 
gates, until thy high and fenced walls 
come down, wherein thou trusteth, 
throughout all thy land ; and he shall be- 
siege thee in all thy gates throughout 
all thy land, which the Lord tny God 
hath given thee. And thou shalt eat the 
fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy 
sons and of thy daughters, which the 
Lord thy God hath given thee, yn. the 
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith 
thine enemies shall distress thee." 

Moses here describes the siege of 
Jerusalem and some of the startling 
events which took place during that 
siege when the Romans came from afar, 
bearing on their ibanners the eagle, the 
insignia of their swiftness and power; 
who so utterly destroyed the people and 
hemmed them in Jerusalem with a siege 
that drove them frantic with hunger, in 
which it is a well known fact that par- 
ents did eat their own children. 

In the same chapter from which we 
have just quoted, 63rd to 67th verse. 



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Moses continues to describe even before 
the Israelites had crossed into Canaan, 
what should afterward befall them, 
that which has come to be veritable 
history. The prophecy reads as follows : 
"And ye shall be plucked from off the 
land whither thou goest to possess it. 
And the Lord shall scatter thee among 
all people, from the one end of the earth 
even unto the other; and there thou 
shalt serve other gods, which neither 
thou nor thy fathers have known, even 
wood and stone. And among these na- 
tions shalt thou find no ease, neither 
shall the sole of thy foot have rest ; but 
the Lord shall give thee there a tremb- 
ling heart, and failing of eyes, and sor- 
row of mind ; and thy life shall hang in 
douibt before thee ; and thou shalt fear 
day and night, and shall have none as- 
surance of thy life." 

How literally this prophecy has been 
fulfilled. The Jews 'have been persecu- 
ted throughout the centuries and in all 
parts of the world. They have been 
robbed, beaten and slain; they have 
lived in uncertainty and dread. Even 
within recent years in many European 
lands they have been great sufferers, 



The Prophetic MetJwd. 17 

and today in many countries they are 
almost without sympathy or protection. 

We wish to call your attention to a 
prophecy contained in Deut. 29:24-28: 
''Even all nations shall say, Wherefore 
hath the Lord done thus unto this land V 
What meaneth the heat of this great 
anger? Then men shall say, Because 
they have forsaken the covenant of the 
Lord God of their fathers, which He 
made with them when He brought them 
forth out of the land of Egypt: For 
they went and served other gods, and 
worshipped them, gods whom they knew 
not, and whom He had not given unto 
them: And the anger of the Lord was 
kindled against this land, to bring upon 
it all the curses that are written in this 
book : And the Lord rooted them out of 
their land in anger, and in wrath, and 
in great indignation, and cast them into 
another land, as it is in this day." 

Here the prophet is telling us that it 
will become the common knowledge and 
remark of the people as they look upon 
the desolation of Palestine, the ruined 
city, and barren and destroyed country 
that it has been the judgment of God 
sent upon His people because of their 



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wickedness. This is exactly true at this 
very time. This is a well known fact 
among heathen Mohammedans and 
travelers, and people everywhere. Long 
after Moses wrote this prophecy Isaiah 
said in Chap. 1:7, 8, 9, ''Your country 
is desolate, your cities are burned with 
fire: your land, strangers devour it in 
your presence, and it is desolate, as ov- 
erthrown by strangers. And the daugh- 
ter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vine- 
yard, as a lodge in a garden of cucum- 
bers, as a besieged city. Except the 
Lord of hosts had left unto us a very 
small remnant, we should have been as 
Sodom, and we should have been like 
unto Gomorrah." Again Isaiah says, 
''Upon the land of my people shall come 
up thorns and briers.'' The prophet 
Jeremiah joins in the same sad refrain 
in Chap. 19:7, 8, 9: "And I will make 
void the counsel of Judah and Jerusa- 
lem in this place ; and I will cause them 
to fall by the sword before their ene- 
mies, and by the hands of them that 
seek their lives ; and their carcases will 
I give to be meat for the fowls of the 
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 
And I will make this city desolate, and 



The Prophetic Method. 19 

an hissing; every one that passeth 
thereby shall be astonished and hiss, be- 
cause of all the plagues thereof. And 
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their 
sons, and the flesh of their daughters, 
and they shall eat every one the flesh of 
his friend, in the siege and straitness 
wherewith their enemies, and they that 
seek their lives, shall straiten them." 

Ezekiel looking through the prophet- 
ic telescope beheld the same calamities 
befalling Israel, Chap. 7:1-4: ''More- 
over, the word of the Lord came unto 
me, saying : Also, thou son of man, thus 
saith the Lord God unto the land of Is- 
rael, an end, the end is come upon the 
four corners of the land. Now is the 
end come upon thee, and I will send 
mine anger upon thee, and will judge 
thee according to thy ways, and will 
recompense upon thee all thine abomi- 
nations. And my eye shall not spare 
thee, neither will I have pity, but I will 
recompense thy ways upon thee, and 
thine abominations shall be in the midst 
of thee; and ye shall know that I am 
the Lord." 

The prophet Amos goes on record in 
harmony with the rest of the inspired 



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seers of Israel, see Chap. 9 :9, 10 : ''Tor, 
lo, I will command, and I will sift the 
house of Israel among all nations, like 
as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not 
the least grain fall upon the earth. All 
the sinners of my people shall die by 
the sword, which say, the evil shall not 
overtake or prevent us.'' The prophet 
Micah bears witness to the same de- 
struction of his people. In Chap. 3, 
verses 10, 11 and 12, he says: 'They 
build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem 
with iniquity. The heads thereof judge 
for reward, and the priests thereof 
teach for hire, and the prophets thereof 
divine for money ; yet will they lean up- 
on the Lord, and say. Is not the Lord 
among us? none evil can come upon us. 
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be 
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall 
become heaps, and the mountain of the 
house as the high places of the forest." 

You will notice how thoroughly the 
prophets agree with each other as they 
describe the calamities which were to 
befall their people. These prophecies 
scarcely need comment with reference 
to their fulfillment. There are no facts 
more plainly written in history, and 



The Prophetic Method. 21 

more generally understood among all 
intelligent men in all the world, than 
those facts in connection with the de- 
struction of Palestine, the fall of Jeru- 
salem, the captivity, scattering, persecu- 
tions and sufferings of the Hebrew peo- 
ple. The words of Moses, Isaiah, Eze- 
kiel, Jeremiah, Hosea, Micah and Amos 
have been literally fulfilled to the small- 
est detail. The predictions of these men 
have become plainly written history, 
and there is no possible way to account 
for their knowledge of these things cen- 
turies before they came to pass, except 
to agree that the Bible is an inspired 
book, and that the men who wrote these 
prophecies which have through succeed- 
ing generations and centuries been so 
accurately fulfilled, were inspired men. 
There is a story that during one of 
his campaigns, the old Emperor Will- 
iam, the grandfather of the present 
Emperor of Germany, sitting by his 
camp fire one night said to his chaplain : 
"Chaplain, what is the best external 
proof of the inspiration of the Bible? 
Answer me in a word, not an argument, 
or discussion; but in a word." The 
chaplain tipped his cap, and said: 



22 Lectures on Prophecy. 

"Sire, the Jews/' "Ha!" said the Em- 
peror, "that is splendid! you could not 
have given a better answer." The Jews 
as we have them in the Bible, in historj", 
and in the world today are a tremen- 
dous external evidence of the inspira- 
tion of the Scriptures. 

We wish to impress upon your mind 
the wisdom of the prophetic method of 
revelation. Could you conceive of any 
better way, or any other method half 
so good addressed to intelligent, reason- 
ing beings as this method? This plan 
of God's to inspire men to write certain 
predictions of future events in such 
general account of the conduct of na- 
tions, giving such minute details of 
transactions and incidents that were to 
occur hundreds and thousands of years 
after the predictions had been written, 
and behold as we stand in the midst of 
history we find that the predictions of 
the ancient seers of the Lord dovetail 
into the facts, not only as they have 
transpired through the years, but the 
events which are coming to pass in the 
very times in which we are living. 

It seems to us that Christian people 
could desire no better evidence, or pre- 



The Prophetic Method. 23 

sent no stronger proof to the enemies 
of the Word of God, and unbelievers ev- 
erywhere, in this skeptical age, of the 
inspiration of our Bible, than the re- 
markable accuracy with which prophecy 
has been fulfilled and is now being ful- 
filled before our very eyes. 

THE RESTORATION OF THE HEBREW 
PEOPLE. 

The prophets just as definitely fore- 
told the restoration of the Hebrew peo- 
ple to Palestine, as they foretold their 
dispersion and scattering throughout 
the nations. The fulfillment of the 
prophecies concerning the dispersion 
is a positive guarantee that the pro- 
phecies concerning the restoration will 
be literally fulfilled. We can no more 
reasonably doubt the restoration of the 
Jews than we can doubt the scattering 
of the Jews. We wish to call your at- 
tention to some of the prophecies con- 
cerning the restoration of the Jews. We 
have already noticed that Moses pre- 
dicted the captivity and scattering of 
the Jews before they crossed into Pal- 
estine, and we have seen that what 



24 Lectures on Prophecy. 

Moses wrote on the subject has been 
literally fulfilled. 

In Deut. 30:1, 2, and 3 verses, he 
tells us just as plainly that they shall be 
restored to Palestine : "'And it shall come 
to pass, when all these things are come 
upon thee, the blessing and the curse, 
which I have set 'before thee, and thou 
shalt call them to mind among all the 
nations, whither the Lord thy God hath 
driven thee. And shalt return unto the 
Lord thy God, and shalt obey His voice 
according to all that 'I command thee 
this day, thou and thy children, with 
all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 
That then the Lord thy God will turn 
thy captivity, and have compassion up- 
on thee, and will return and gather thee 
from all the nations, whither the Lord 
thy God hath scattered thee.'' 

In Isaiah we find a graphic descrip- 
tion of the gathering of Israel back to 
Palestine. We will notice the 11th chap. 
11th and 12th verses of Isaiah: "And 
it shall come to pass in that day, that 
the Lord shall set His hand again the 
second time to recover the remnant of 
His people, which shall be left, from 
Assyria, and from Egypt, and from 



The Prophetic Method. 25 

Pathros, and from Cush, and from 
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Ha- 
math, and from the islands of the sea. 
And He shall set up an ensign for the 
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts 
of Israel, and gather together the dis- 
persed of Judah from the four corners 
of the earth." 

We want you to also notice Jer. 23rd 
CTiap. 3rd, 7th and 8th verses: "And 
I will gather the remnant of my flock 
out of all countries whither I have 
driven them, and will bring them again 
to their folds ; and they shall be fruitful 
and increase. Therefore, ibehold, the 
days come, saith the Lord, tliat they 
shall no more say, The Lord liveth, 
which broug'ht up the children of Israel, 
out of the land of Egypt : But, the 
Lord liveth, which brought up and 
which led the seed of the house of Is- 
rael out of the north country, and from 
all countries, w'hither I had driven 
them ; and they shall dwell in their own 
land." 

Take also the quotation from the 31st 
Chap. 10th, 11th and 12th verses: 
"Hear the w^ord of the Lord, ye na- 
tions, and declare it in the isles afar off, 



26 Lectures on Prophecy. 

and say, He that scattered Israel will 
gather him, and keep him, as a shep- 
herd doth his flock. For the Lord hath 
redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him 
from the hand of him that was stronger 
than he. Therefore, they shall come and 
sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow 
together to the (goodness of the Lord, 
for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, 
and for the young of the flock, and of 
the herd: and their soul shall be as a 
watered garden ; and they shall not sor- 
row any more at all." 

Also note the 33rd chapter of Jer. 7th 
and 8th verses: "And I will cause the 
captivity of Judah and the captivity of 
Israel to return, and will build them, 
as at the first. And I will cleanse them^, 
from all their iniquity, whereby they 
have sinned against me ; and I will par- 
don all their iniquities, whereby they 
have sinned, and whereby they have 
transgressed against me." 

We are taught in the Scriptures that 
there is not only to be a great gathering 
of this dispersed people from all coun- 
tries back to Palestine, but there is also 
to be among them a great spiritual 
awakening. This fact is brought out 



The Prophetic Method. 27 

very clearly in a beautiful prophecy 
found in Ezekiel 36th Chap., 22nd to 
31st verses: 'Therefore say unto the 
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord 
God: I do not this for your sakes, 
house of Israel, but for mine holy 
name's sake, which ye have profaned 
among the heathen, whither ye went. 
And I will sanctify my great name, 
which was profaned among the heathen, 
which ye have profaned in the midst of 
them ; and the heathen shall know that 
I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, 
when I shall be sanctified in you before 
their eyes. For I will take you from 
among the heathen, and gather you out 
of all countries, and will bring you into 
your own land. Then will I sprinkle 
clean water upon you, and ye shall be 
clean : from all your filthiness, and 
from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 
A new heart also will I give you, and a 
new spirit will I put within you ; and I 
will take away the stony heart out of 
your flesh, and I will give you an heart 
of flesh. And I will put my spirit with- 
in you, and cause you to walk in my 
statutes, and ye shall keep my judg- 
ments, and do them. And ye shall dwell 



28 Lectures on Prophecy. 

in the land that I gave to your fathers ; 
and ye shall be my people, and I will be 
your God. I will also save you from all 
your uncleannesses : and I will call for 
the corn, and will increase it, and lay 
no famine upon you. And I will multi- 
ply the fruit of the tree, and the in- 
crease of the field, that ye shall receive 
ho more reproach of famine among the 
heathen. Then shall ye rememiber your 
own evil ways, and your doings that 
were not good, and shall loathe your- 
selves in your own sight for your ini- 
quities and for your abominations." 

We wish in conclusion to call your at- 
tention to the fact that devout Bible 
students throughout the world are quite 
agreed that we are now on the eve of 
the fulfillment of those prophecies con- 
cerning the restoration of the Jews. In 
fact, they have in the last few years 
been returning to Palestine in large 
numbers. Jerusalem for two decades, 
has been rapidly rebuilding. Large 
numbers of houses have been going up 
outside the city walls. A few years ago 
we spent some days in the city of Je- 
rusalem, and were profoundly impress- 
ed with the rapid growth of the city, 



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and the large number of Jews returning 
from various countries. 

It is quite remarkable, and ought to 
be a source of great joy to Christian 
people, that just at this time when de- 
structive criticism is so aggressive, the 
prophetical portions of the Scriptures 
are being so literally fulfilled. In His 
infinite wisdom God anticipated and 
has provided for every emergency that 
can possibly arise, and ever has His an- 
swers ready for the enemies of truth 
and righteousness. We praise His great 
name that the toook He has given us up- 
on which we have founded our hopes 
of peace and happiness here, and eter- 
nal blessedness yonder, is so written 
that it is capable of positive proof that 
it is divinely inspired. 



LECTURE II. 

PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE DESTRUC- 
TION OF THE CITIES AND NA- 
TIONS WHO PERSECUTED 
THE JEWS. 

We propose in this lecture to call at* 
tention to a few of the prophecies point- 
ing to the calamities that were to fall 
upon the peoples who persecuted the 
Jews. We wish to impress upon your 
mind the fact that these prophecies 
were uttered at a time so remote from 
their fulfillment, when the cities and 
nations against which they were uttered 
were so powerful and prosperous that, 
from a human point of view, they 
would abide until the end of time; yet 
these prophecies were fulfilled so per- 
fectly, with such minute details that it 
lifts the whole matter entirely out of 
the realm of guesswork or any possibili- 
ty of mere human foresight, into the 
realm 'of divine inspiration. 

In a word, the men whose prophecies 
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are contained in our Bible and who fore- 
told the coming, sufferings, death, and 
glorious reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
were inspired men. Their predictions 
about other matters of God's dealings 
with the nations of the earth have so 
perfectly fitted into the facts of history, 
that there is no reasonable ground for 
doubting the truth of their claims, and 
no way to account for the accurate mat- 
ter in which they foretold future events 
except to admit that they were inspired 
and that God spoke through them. 

We wish to call your attention to the 
City of Nineveh. It was the capital of 
the Assyrian Empire and one of the 
most ancient cities of the world, evi- 
dently beginning its existence not a long 
while after the flood. 

In (Genesis, 10th chapter and 11th 
verse, we are told that Asshur v/ent 
forth and built Nineveh. When Jonah 
was called to preach to the Ninevites we 
are told that it was "an exceeding great 
city of three days' journey." Twenty 
m.iles in those times was a day's jour- 
ney, so it was sixty miles around the 
city of Nineveh. The wall encircling 
the city was one hundred feet high and 



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so broad that three chariots could drive 
around it abreast. On this wall there 
were fifteen hundred towers about two 
hundred feet high. If an enemy had 
have been able to climb upon the city 
wall, the defenders could have gone into 
these towers and showered down mis- 
siles and stones upoin them. 

When Jonah was displeased because 
God did not destroy the city at the time 
of his preaching and God was making a 
plea for mercy, He said to Jonah that 
there were more than six-score thou- 
sand people in the city who could not 
discern between their right hand and 
their left. That is, there were more 
than one hundred and twenty thousand 
babies in the city who were not old 
enough to know their right hand fr^om 
their left hand. The general estimate 
of populations is one baby to every five 
persons. So Nineveh must have had at 
that time la population of more than six 
hundred thousand people. It was the 
Metropolis of one of the m'ost wealthy 
and powerful Empires in the world, and 
was one of the most bitter haters and 
persecutors of the Jewish people. Such 
was Nineveh when the prophet of God 



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foretold its overthrow, utter ruin and 
desolation. 

If you will read the books of Kings 
and Chronicles you will find that the 
Kings of Assyria were the unrelenting 
enemies of the Jews. 

Pul, a King of Assyria, invaded Israel 
and was bought off with a thousand 
talents of silver. (2 Kings 15:19). La- 
ter on ''Shalmaneser, the King of As- 
syria, came up throughout all the 
lands f' and after a long siege ''took Sa- 
maria and carried Israel away into As- 
syria,'' and scattered them about in va- 
rious cities. (2 Kings 17:5, 6). Still 
later, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, 
came up against all the fenced cities of 
Judah and took them (2 Kings 18:10- 
13) and he exacted of good King Heze- 
kia'h "three hundred talents of silver, 
and thirty talents of gold,'' and Heze- 
kiah had to empty his own treasuries in 
the palace and the treasuries of the 
Lord's House in order to meet this im- 
mense levy and induce the King to 
leave the country. Still later on Esar- 
haddon. King of Assyria, Son of Sen- 
nacherib, finally completed the destruc- 
tion of Israel, taking the people away 



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captive into Assyria, and bringing peo- 
ple from Cuthah, Hamath, and Babylon 
and placing them in the cities of Israel 
which had been left empty and desolate 
by the captivity and removal of their 
inhabitants to Assyria. 

There is an account of the result of 
this transplanting of the heathen people 
into Palestine given in 2 Kings, 24-30 
verses. We read here that these trans- 
planted heathen became so wicked that 
God sent wild beasts to destroy them, 
and when word was brought to the 
King of Assyria he sent back a Hebrew 
priest to teach them the ways of God, 
but this priest was not a successful 
missionary and the people continued to 
worship their idols. 

Now let us examine some of the pro- 
phecies pronounced against these de- 
spoilers of Israel and Nineveh, their 
great capital city. In Zephaniah 2nd 
chapter, 13th to 15th verses, we read of 
the judgments of God to be sent upon 
Nineveh. And He will stretch out His 
hand against the north, and destroy As- 
syria ; and will make Nineveh a desola- 
tion, and dry like a wilderness.'' 

"And flocks shall lie down in the 



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midst of her, all the 'beasts of the na- 
tions: both the cormorant and the bit- 
tern shall lodge in the upper lintels of 
it : their voice shall sing in the win- 
dows; desolation shall be in the thresh- 
holds: for He shall uncover the cedar 
work." 

*This is the rejoicing city that dwelt 
carelessly ; that said in her heart, I am, 
and there is none beside me : hov/ is she 
become a desolation, a place for beasts 
to lie down in every one that passeth by 
her shall hiss, and wag his hand." 

This prophecy has been so literally 
fulfilled that it takes experienced, well 
versed and discerning travelers to lo- 
cate the place where this great city once 
stood. The scattered ruins indicate the 
large area once covered by the city, 
but now the place is perfectly desolate, 
a broken and rugged pasture where the 
cattle browse and lie down to rest. 

The Prophet Nahum gives a graphic 
description of the coming destruction of 
Nineveh while it was yet in its glory in 
chapter 1, verses 1, 2, and 3 ; also 8, 9, 
TO, and 14 verses v/e read the following : 

"The burden of Nineveh. The book 
of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite." 



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''God is jealous, and the Lord reveng- 
eth ; the Lord revengeth, and is furious ; 
the Lord will take vengeance on His ad- 
versaries, and He reserveth wrath for 
His enemies/' 

''The Lord is slow to anger, and great 
in power, and Vv^ill not at all acquit the 
wicked: the Lord hath His way in the 
whirlwind and in the storm, and the 
clouds are the dust of His feet." 

"But with an overrunning flood He 
vdll make an utter end of the palace 
thereof, and darkness shall pursue His 
enemies/' 

What do you imagine against the 
Lord ? He will make an utter end : af- 
fliction shall not rise up the second timiC. 
For while they be folden together as 
thorns, and while they are drunken as 
drunkards, they shall be devoured as 
stubble fully dry/' 

"And the Lord hath (given a com- 
mandment concerning thee, that no 
more of thy name be sown : out of the 
house of thy gods will I cut off the gra- 
ven image and the molten image ; I will 
make thy grave ; for thou art vile/' 

Herodotus tells us that the Medes as- 
sisted the Babylonians in capturing the 



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city of Nineveh. The city was besieged 
for a long while, but with its powerful 
walls the inhabitants felt perfectly safe. 
During the siege there was a long heavy 
rain which caused the river which 
flowed through the city to overflow its 
banks and break down a part of the city 
wall. Note the prophecy of Nahum: 
"With an overrunning flood He will 
make an utter end of the place thereof. 
Diodorus Siculus, the historian, tells us 
that the soldiers of the Assyrian army 
were drunk when the city was captured 
and that when the King saw that the 
overflowing river had broken the walls 
and the defences of the city, he gathered 
his people into the palace and setting it 
on fire, was consumed. 

Note the prophecy again : "For while 
they be folden together as thorns, and 
while they are drunken as drunkards, 
they shall be devoured as stubble fully 
dry." It will be seen here that the 
prophet not only told of the destruction 
of the city but described the details of 
its destruction. How men with these 
facts before them, with the cogv/heels 
of prophecy fitting so perfectly into the 
cogwheels of history, can doubt the in- 



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spiration of the prophets, we are unable 
to comprehend. 

We should remember, however, that 
the average unbeliever has not taken 
time or pains to study with thoughtful 
care the prophecies contained in the Old 
Testament Scriptures and the perfec- 
tion with which these prophecies have 
been fulfilled. It seems to us that our 
religious teachers have not used, as they 
might, these great facts to give to Chris- 
tians a broad and unshakaible founda- 
tion upon which to rest their faith in the 
inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and 
to prove to doubters the unquestioned 
fact of the divine inspiration of the men 
who wrote the prophecies. 

Babylon. 

We wish to call attention briefly to 
some prophecies concerning the fall of 
Babylon, the capital of the Babylonian 
Kingdom. Babylon was as ancient, as 
great and as wicked a city as Nineveh, 
and was equally the bitter enemy and 
persecutor of the Jewish people. While 
the King of Nineveh had deported the 
ten tribes of Israel and carried them 
into captivity, the King of Babylon had 



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conquered Judah, destroyed Jerusalem 
and carried the two remaining tribes 
of the Hebrew people into captivity. 
Jeremiah, in his grief over the ruin of 
his people, says, ''Israel is a scattered 
sheep ; the lions have driven him away ; 
first, the King of Assyria hath devoured 
him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar, king 
of Babylon, hath broken his bones/' 

"Therefore thus saith the Lord of 
hosts, the God of Israel ; Behold, I will 
punish the King of Babylon and his 
land, as I have punished the king of 
Assyria." 

We wish to impress upon your minds 
the fact that the prophecies I shall quote 
concerning the overthrow of Babylon, 
were uttered while the city was at the 
zenith of its power and glory, seemingly 
invincible to every foe, and with every 
promise of abiding while time shall last. 
Yet the prophet of God not only pre- 
dicted its overthrow and the circum- 
stances connected with its utter ruin, 
but he names the conqueror of Babylon 
more than a hundred years before that 
great military genius was born. The 
only way to account for such accurate 
penetration into the future is explained 



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in Isaiah 46:9, 10: ''I am God, and 
there is none like me. Declaring the 
end from the beginning, and from an- 
cient times the things not yet done.'' 

Isaiah's prophecies concerning the 
fall and ruin of Babylon were written 
about one hundred and fifty years be- 
fore the events described in those proph- 
ecies took place. In the 13th chapter 
of his writing, 19-22 verses, we find this 
remarkable statement: 

''And Batoylon, the glory of kingdoms, 
the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, 
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom 
and Gomorrah." 

"It shall never be inhabited, neither 
shall it be dwelt in from generation to 
generation; neither shall the Arabian 
pitch tent there ; neither shall the shep-. 
herds make their fold there:" 

"But wild beasts of the deserts shall 
lie there : and their houses shall be full 
of doleful creatures: and owls shall 
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance 
there." 

"And the wild beasts of the islands 
shall cry in their desolate houses, and 
dragons in their pleasant palaces: and 



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her time is near to come, and her days 
shall not be prolonged/' 

There are many prophecies in Isaiah 
concerning the overthrow of this wick- 
ed city. It is in the 45th chapter that 
he mentioned Cyrus as the destroyer of 
Babylon : 

"Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, 
to Cyrus, whose right hand I have hold- 
en, to subdue nations before him; and 
I will loose the loins of kin^s, to open 
before him the two leaved gates; and 
the gates shall not be shut." 

"I will go before thee, and make the 
crooked places straight : I will 'break in 
pieces the gates of brass, and cut in 
sunder the bars of iron." 

"'And I will give thee the treasures 
of darkness, and hidden riches of secret 
places, that thou may est know that I, 
the Lord, which shall call thee by thy 
name, am the God of Israel." 

'Tor Jacob my servant's sake, and Is- 
rael mine elect, I have even called thee 
by thy name; I have surnamed thee, 
though thou hast not known me." 

''I am the Lord, and there is none else, 
there is no God beside me : I girded thee, 
though tbou hast not known me:" 



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The Prophet Jeremiah has much to 
say against Babylon. In oriapter 51, 
verses 61-64 we read: 

"And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When 
thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, 
and shalt read all these words; Then 
shalt thou say, Lord, thou hast spoken 
against this place, to cut it off, that 
none shall remain in it, neither m.an 
nor beast, but that it shall be desolate 
forever." 

"And it shall be, when thou hast 
made an end of reading this book, that 
thou shalt 'bind a stone to it, and cast it 
into the midst of Euphrates:'' 

"And thou shalt say, Thus shall Bab- 
ylon sink, and shall not rise from the 
evil that I will bring upon her : and they 
shall be weary. Thus far are the v7ords 
of Jeremiah." 

Jeremiah names the dates when the 
city was to be captured. We find this 
prediction in chapter 25, verses 12-13: 
"And it shall come to pas&, when seven- 
ty years are accomplished, that I will 
punish the king of Babylon, and thr.t 
nation, saith the Lord, for their iniq- 
uity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and 
will make it perpetual desolations." 



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"And I will bring upon that land all 
my words which I have pronounced 
against it, even all that is written m 
this book, which Jeremiah hath proph- 
esied against all the nations." 

He also gives the details of the capt- 
ure. ''I have laid a snare for thee, and 
thou art also taken, Babylon, and 
thou wast not aware; thou art found, 
and also caught, because thou hast striv- 
en against the Lord.'' Jer. 50:24. 

Babylon is suddenly fallen and de- 
stroyed. Jeremiah 51:8; also 30, 31, 
32 verses: "The mighty men of Baby- 
lon have forborne to fight, they have re- 
mained in their holds : their might hath 
failed; they became as women: they 
have burned her dwelling places; her 
bars are broken." 

"One post shall run to meet another, 
and one messenger to meet another, to 
shew the king of Babylon that his city 
is taken at one end. And that the pas- 
sages are stopped, and the reeds they 
have burned with fire, and the men of 
war are affrighted." 

Cyrus captured Babylon by turning 
the river which ran through the city out 
of its course, and at the same time two 



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armies entered the city, one beneath the 
wall where the river entered the city, 
and the other where the river left the 
city so that the watchman who ran from 
the either side of the city to notify the 
king that an enemy had entered Baby- 
lon, fulfilled the prediction that one post 
or messenger should meet another car- 
rying the message to the king of the 
fall of the city. 

The Prophet Daniel tells us of the 
fall of Babylon. It was during a night 
of revelry and drunkenness. 'They 
brought the golden vessels that were 
taken out of the temple of the house of 
God which was at Jerusalem; and the 
king, and his princes, his wives, and his 
concubines, drank in them. They drank 
wine, and praised the gods of gold, and 
of silver, or brass, of iron, of wood and 
of stone. In the same hour came forth 
the fingers of a man's hand and wrote 
over against the candlestick upon the 
plaister of the wall of the king's palace : 
and the king saw the part of the hand 
that wrote." 

You remember that Daniel was called 
to interpret the writing, and translat- 
ed it to the king. 'Thou art weighed 



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in the balances, and art found wanting/' 

While this was transpiring the in- 
vading army was entering the city and 
that night the king was slain, his army 
and city destroyed. 

It was foretold that Babylon ''Shall 
become heaps/' It is a well known fact 
that the site of this ancient city is a 
vast succession of mounds, rubbish and 
ruins. 

The prophet said the ''wild beasts of 
the desert'' were to "lie there" and 
"their houses to be full of doleful creat- 
ures." In the ruins of Babyl6n the cel- 
lars and pits and holes have become the 
dens and hiding places of lions and va- 
rious wild beasts. 

The prophet said that Babylon would 
become "pools of water." Arabs and 
others seeking after treasure and his- 
torical data have dug many holes and 
pits in the old sight of Babylon, and the 
Euphrates overflowing has filled these 
excavations and they have become per- 
manent pools of water. 

The desolation of Nineveh and Baby- 
lon were seen and accurately described 
by God's inspired prophets in minute 
detail many decades before these proph- 



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ecies were fulfilled, and the sights of 
these ancient ruined cities stand today 
exactly as foretold by the men of God, 
solemn witnesses of the inspiration of 
the Holy Scriptures. 

If time permitted we might call at- 
tention to prophecies concerning the de- 
struction of Tyre, Egypt, and Syria, and 
their literal fulfillment in every detail 
of the prophetic predictions. 

We wish to impress upon you that 
there are prophecies v/ritten by these 
same prophets vv^hich have not yet been 
fulfilled, but it seems to us that what 
of their foretelling which has come to 
pass with such accuracy offers a firm 
foundation for our belief in their inspi- 
ration and that we may, without doubt, 
look forward to the fulfillment of what 
they have written concerning time yet 
to come. 

If God punished the nations which 
sinned against Him in the past. He Vv^ill 
undoubtedly punish the nations which 
have sinned against Him iii these latter 
times. 

It seems that the next fearful fulfill- 
ment of prophecy will fall upon the 
Turkish nation. No people have been 



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more bitter in their hatred of the Lord's 
people, both Jews and Christians, than 
have the Turks, and no people in all 
history have been more merciless than 
they. Throughout the centuries they 
have slaughtered, robbed, burned, wast- 
ed and oppressed the Lord's people. 

The Turks have had possession of 
Palestine and all the countries sur- 
rounding that country, for about one 
thousand two hundred and sixty-nine 
years. It has seemed strange that the 
Christian nations have permitted them 
to hold on to the Holy Land, and tram- 
ple down Jerusalem as long as they 
have. 

The explanation of it is that God fixes 
dates and men cannot change them. No 
povv^er could destroy Nineveh or Baby- 
lon until God's time arrived, and then 
no power could save them. Their de- 
struction was sudden and awful. The 
prophets have plainly predicted the 
overthrow of the Turks, but in the mind 
of God there is a time fixed for that 
event to take place and neither diplo- 
mats or soldiers can hurry or retard 
Him. 

"Jerusalem shall be trodden down of 



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the Gentiles, until the times of the Gen- 
tiles be fulfilled/' Luke 21 :24. The 
word Gentile meant in Bible times what 
the word heathen means today. Jeru- 
salem was to be trodden down of the 
heathen Turks for an appointed time. 

There are two great events spoken of 
by the prophets, the fulfillment of which 
is now at the door. One is the overthrow 
of the Turkish power; the other is the 
return of the Jews. These events will 
evidently occur almost simultaneously; 
the Turks going out just ibefore the 
Jews come in. In fact, these prophe- 
cies are now being fulfilled before our 
eyes ; the power of Turkey is being brok- 
en and the Jews are beginning to re- 
turn. 

You need not be surprised if some 
fearful tragedies take place in a very 
short time. The Turks will most likely 
make a last desperate stand, but God 
will punish them for all their bloody 
brutality to His people. He will collect 
off of them both the interest and the 
principal. Turn to your Bible and read 
in Ezk. 35th chapter: "Moreover, the 
word of the Lord come unto me, saying. 
Son of man, set thy face against Mount 



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Seir, and prophesy against it, And say 
unto it, Thus saith the Lord God, Be- 
hold, Mount Seir, I am against thee, 
and I will stretch out mine hand against 
thee, and I will make thee most deso- 
late. ♦! will lay thy cities waste, and 
thou shalt be desolate; and thou ahalt 
know that I am the Lord." 

''Because thou hast had a perpetual 
hatred, and hast shed the blood of the 
children of Israel by the force of the 
sword in the time of their calamity, in 
the time that their iniquity had an 
end:" 

'Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord 
God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and 
blood shall pursue thee; sith thou hast 
not hated blood, even blood shall pur- 
sue thee." 

Read also the 13th and 14th verses 
of the same chapter: "Thus with your 
mouth ye have boasted against me, and 
have multiplied your words against me : 
I have heard them. Thus saith the 
Lord God, When the whole earth re- 
joiceth, I will make thee desolate." 

Isaiah in his visions saw the same de- 
struction coming upon the Turks and 
the peoples who with them have op- 



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pressed the Lord's people. Read in the 
34th chapter of his prophecy: ''Come 
near, ye nations, to hear ; and hearken, 
ye people; let the earth hear, and all 
that is therein : the world, and all things 
that come forth of it/' 

'Tor the indignation of the Lord is 
upon all nations, and His fury upon all 
their armies : He hath utterly destroyed 
them. He hath delivered them to the 
slaughter." 

"Their slain also shall be cast out, and 
their stink shall come up out of their 
carcases, and the mountains shall be 
melted with their 'blood.'' 

"And all the 'host of heaven shall be 
dissolved, and the heavens shall be roll- 
ed together as a scroll: and all their 
host shall, fall down, as the leaf falleth 
off from the vine, and as a falling fig 
from the fig tree.'' 

"Tor my sword shall be bathed in 
heaven : behold, it shall come down upon 
Idumea, and upon the people of my 
curse, to judgment." 

"The sword of the Lord is filled with 
blood ; it is made fat with fatness, and 
with the blood of lambs and goats, with 
the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the 



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Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a 
great slaughter in the land of Idumea." 
There seems to be here some hint of 
the punishment of the nations in tne 
present war. We have no doubt that 
by the time this awful war comes to an 
end the power of Turkey will be broken. 
Through the centuries the Turks, both 
in diplomacy and on the battle-field, 
have been well-nigh invincible, 'but their 
time is up. The Italians whipped them, 
the Balkans whipped them, the Rus- 
sians are chasing them, and the British 
will drive them out of Egypt. In a 
short time they will be compelled to 
leave Palestine, and, in the not distant 
future, the Jews who will have fulfilled 
the time of their dispersion, will come 
flocking home to the Holy Land like 
doves to their windows. 



LECTURE III. 

PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE COMING 
AND SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. 

According to our chronology it was 
approximately 4,158 years from the fall 
of Adam in the Garden of Eden to the 
death of Jesus Christ on the cross of 
Calvary. But from the time of that 
fatal fall to the time of that tragic cru- 
cifixion there was strung all along the 
highway of human history a telegraphic 
line of prophecy bringing to sinful men 
the promise of a Redeemer. The first 
hint of hope to fallen man is given in 
the promise that. *'the seed of the wo- 
'man shall bruise the serpent's head.'' 
From Mt. Moriah Abraham saw the 
day of Christ, and was glad. 

We think there are three facts that 
will be readily admitted by all students 
of the Scriptures. 

First, the ancient Hebrew prophets 
saw in their visions, and promised in 
their messages a coming Redeemer and 

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Sufferings of Christ. 53 

King. The harmony of their predic- 
tions with reference to this coming Re- 
deemer is most remarkable. The casual 
reader will soon discover that the dif- 
ferent prophets living in various coun- 
tries and at periods of time wide apart, 
spoke of the same Christ. There are no 
contradictions or disagreements among 
the prophets concerning the world's 
Messiah. Their combined drawings 
make up a complete picture of the 
Christ. Their combined writings con- 
tain His earthly history long before He 
was born. 

Second, Jesus Christ claimed to be 
the promised Messiah. He claimed to 
be the one of whom the prophets had 
spoken through the years. He never 
hesitated to identify Himself as the sent 
of God in fulfillment of the prophecies 
and promises of the ancient seers of 
Israel. He held to this claim when 
He knew it meant crucifixion and He 
testified to the same after His resurrec- 
tion. 

Third, the writers of the Gospels and 
Epistles contained in the New Testa- 
ment, believed without question in the 
inspiration of the prophets, and the di- 



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vine truthfulness of what they had 
written. They also believed, without 
doubt, that Jesus of Nazareth was the 
Messiah spoken of by the prophets, and 
that His personality, life, teaching, 
death and resurrection fulfilled what 
these ancient prophets had written of 
Him. 

There is no more interesting or 
profitable study than to take the Old 
Testament statements concerning the 
coming life and sufferings of Jesus, and 
the New Testament containing the ac- 
count of the earthly life, ministry and 
sufferings of Jesus, and note how per- 
fectly the Christ life fits into the pre- 
diction of the prophets. There is no 
way to account for this except that 
we agree that the prophets were in- 
spired and Christ was divine. 

It must be understood that much pro- 
phecy contained in the Old Testament 
does not have direct reference to Christ 
in that wonderful book. We find pro- 
phecies concerning the growth, pros- 
perity, and fall of Israel, the dispersion 
of the Jews, and their final restoration. 
We also find many predictions concern- 
ing the fate that was to overtake the 



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various nations, cities, and peoples who 
persecuted the Jews. It must be borne 
in mind that in some places the proph- 
ets are speaking of Christ in connection 
with His first coming into the world, 
and in other prophecies they are de- 
scribing the glory of His second coming. 
The devout student of the word of God 
will delight to search the Scriptures 
and classify these various prophecies, 
note the fuljfillment of those pertaining 
to His first coming and look forward 
with hopeful joy to the fulfillment of 
those prophecies that refer to His sec- 
ond coming. 

There was one conversation which 
took place between the Lord Jesus and 
two of His disciples, which we can but 
wish might have been recorded in the 
New Testament. It was that conversa- 
tion on the road to Emmaus directly af- 
ter the resurrection. You remember He 
was walking with two of His disciples 
who did not recognize Him. They were 
lamenting over the death of their Lord 
and were quite puzzled with regard to 
some rumor they had heard with refer- 
ence to His resurrection. Believing Je- 
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they undertook to give Him some out- 
line of the events which had just taken 
place. Jesus noting their failure to 
comprehend the great truth of revela- 
tion, said to them : ''0 fools, and slow of 
heart to believe all that the prophets 
have spoken; And beginning at Moses 
and all the prophets, He expounded un- 
to them in all the scriptures the things 
concerning Himself." 

What a wonderful opening up and ap- 
plication of prophecy this must have 
been. We can but wish some inspired 
pen might have caught the words and 
put them down as they fell from His 
lips. We suppose He quoted to them 
the words of Moses — ^"A prophet shall 
the Lord, your God, raise up unto you 
from among your brethren, like unto 
me; Him shall you hear." Perhaps He 
mentioned the lifting up of the brazen 
serpent in the wilderness for the heal- 
ing of the smitten people. He may have 
quoted Job's saying — "I know that my 
Redeemer liveth." 

If, in the conversation, the disciples 
referred to the cruelness with which Je- 
sus was crucified, He could have appro- 
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8 verses, ''All they that see me laugh me 
to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they 
shake the head, saying. He trusted on 
the Lord that He would deliver Him : let 
Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted 
in Him." You recall this language was 
uttered in derision of our Lord while 
He was hanging on the cross. He could 
have also called their attention to the 
18th verse of the same psalm, "They 
part my garments among them, and 
cast lots upon my vesture." 

He perhaps reminded them of Zech- 
ariah 11:12th and 13th verses, "And I 
said unto them, if ye think good, give 
me my price; and if not, forbear. So 
they weighed for my price thirty pieces 
of silver. And the Lord said unto me, 
cast it unto the potter; a goodly price 
that I was priced at of them. And I 
took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast 
them to the potter in the house of the 
Lord." He must have quoted them 
Micah 5:2, "But thou Bethlehem Eph- 
ratah, though thou be little among the 
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall 
He come forth unto me that is to be 
ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth have 
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He could hardly have omitted calling 
their attention to the 53rd Chapter of 
Isaiah, 3rd to 12th verse, which so viv- 
idly describes the humble person, and 
the patient sufferings of the Lord Je- 
sus! ''He is despised and rejected of 
men ; a man of sorrows, and acquainted 
with grief: and we hid as it were our 
faces from Him; He was despised, and 
we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath 
borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
rows : yet we did esteem Him stricken, 
smitten of God, and afflicted. But He 
was wounded for our transgressions, 
He was bruised for our iniquities: the 
chastisement of our peace was upon 
Him ; and with His stripes we are heal- 
ed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; 
we have turned every one to his own 
way ; and the Lord hath laid on Him the 
iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, 
and He was afflicted, yet He opened not 
His mouth : He is fbrought as a lamb to 
the slaughter, and as a sheep before 
her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not 
His mouth. He was taken from prison 
and from judgment: and who shall de- 
clare His generation? for He was cut off 
out of the land of the living: for the 



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transgression of my people was He 
stricken. And He made His grave with 
the wicked, and with the rich in His 
death ; because He had done no violence, 
neither was any deceit in His mouth. 
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him ; 
He hath put Him to grief: when thou 
shalt make His soul an offering for sin, 
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong 
His days, and the pleasure of the Lord 
shall prosper in His hand. He shall see 
the travail of His soul, and shall be 
satisfied: by His knowledge shall my 
righteous servant justify many; for He 
shall bear their iniquities.'* 

This prophecy of Isaiah concerning 
our Lord, is one of the most remarkable 
in all the Old Testament Scriptures. 
Isaiah described the humble person of 
Jesus, tells of His patient sufferings, 
how that He was led as a lamto to the 
slaughter, and is dumb as a sheep before 
the shearers. The prophet looking into 
the centuries ahead beholds the stripes 
laid upon our Lord, sees Him numbered 
with the malefactors, and finally buried 
in a rich man's tomb. Those of you 
who are acquainted with the circum- 
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know how perfectly these ancient 
prophecies were fulfilled in all their de- 
tails. Isaiah standing many centuries 
in advance of these events, describes 
theni as if he had been an eye witness. 
There is no possible way to account for 
this except that Isaiah was divinely in- 
spired, as he claimed to be. 

We wish to call your attention to an- 
other prophecy of Isaiah, contained in 
the 7th Chapter, 14th verse: 'Therefore 
the Lord Himself shall give you a sign : 
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and 
bear a son, and shall call His name Im- 
manuel." You know this remarkable 
scripture was fulfilled. In the 16th 
Psalm and 10th verse, we read this 
prophecy : "For thou wilt not leave my 
soul in the grave, neither wilt thou suf- 
fer thy holy one to see corruption." The 
Psalmist is telling us beforehand of the 
resurrection, and that the body of Je- 
sus would not decay in the tomb. 

In the 22nd Psalm, and 21st verse, 
David gives us the very words that Je- 
sus repeated on the cross hundreds of 
years afterward. ''My God, My God, 
why hast thou forsaken me.'^ In the 
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a beautiful prophecy, representing the 
return of Christ to the throne of glory 
after His resurrection: ''Lift up your 
heads, ye gates ; and be ye lift up ye 
everlasting doors; and the King of 
glory shall come in. Who is this King 
of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, 
the Lord mighty in battle/' In Zech. 
9th Chap., 9th verse, we have a prophe- 
cy which was fulfilled in the most re- 
markable manner: ''Rejoice greatly, 
daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter of 
Jerusalem : behold, thy King cometh un- 
to thee: He is just, and having salva- 
tion ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and 
upon a colt, the foal of an ass.'' 

You well remember that when Jesus 
approached Jerusalem He sent His dis- 
ciples, instructing them, that they would 
find a colt tied on which man had never 
ridden. They were to toring the colt to 
Him, which they did, and He rode 
upon the colt into the city of Jerusalem 
while the people met Him and followed 
Him, shouting out their words of 
praise, fulfilling the ancient prophets' 
prediction in every detail. 

In Exod. 12th Chap., 46th verse, in 
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Hebrews were instructed that no bone 
of the passover lamb should be broken. 
In John 19th Chap., he gives us the fol- 
lowing account, beginning with the 
32nd verse: ''Then came the soldiers, 
and brake the legs of the first, and of 
the other which was crucified with 
Him. But when they came to Jesus, 
and saw that He was dead already, they 
brake not His legs; But one of the sol- 
diers with a spear pierced His side, and 
forthwith came there out 'blood and wa- 
ter. And he that saw it bare record and 
his record is true : and he knoweth that 
he saith true, that he might 'believe. For 
these things were done, that the scrip- 
ture should be fulfilled, A bone of Him 
shall not be broken." 

In Psalm 22, 16th verse, we have Da- 
vid saying: 'They pierced my hands 
and my feet.'' In John 19 :37, we have 
him saying, "And again another scrip- 
ture saith, they shall look upon Him 
whom they pierced.'' Long before the 
crucifixion of our Lord the prophet had 
described a transaction which took place 
at the foot of the cross on the day of 
the crucifixion. It is mentioned in 
Psalm 22:18, "They part my garments 



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among them, and cast lots upon my ves- 
ture/' In Jno 19:23, 24, we read, ^Then 
the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, 
took His garments, and made four 
parts, to every soldier a part; and also 
His coat; now the coat was without 
seam, woven from the top throughout. 
They said, therefore among themselves, 
let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, 
whose it shall be that the scripture 
might 'be fulfilled, which saith, they 
parted my raiment among them, and for 
my vesture they did cast lots. These 
things therefore the soldiers did." 

Now we should like to impress upon 
your minds the fact that long before Je- 
sus was born it was prophesied that He 
should be the son of a virgin, and so He 
was. You remember the incident: Jos- 
eph had decided to put away Mary af- 
ter he had married her, but was re- 
strained from doing so by revelation 
from God. It was prophesiea that Je- 
sus should be born in Bethlehem of 
Judea, and when the Wise Men came to 
Jerusalem seeking Him they secured 
the written prophecy, looked into them 
and found that Jesus was to be born in 
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and found Him there. You will recall 
that one of the prophets speaking of 
the Messiah, says, ''Out of Egypt have 
I called my son;'' and you will recall 
that after the death of Herod God did 
call Joseph and Mary with Jesus up out 
of the land of Egypt, and they came up 
out of Egypt. 

The prophet said the Messiah would 
be sold for thirty pieces of silver. Je- 
sus Christ was betrayed by one of His 
disciples for thirty pieces of silver. The 
prophet had written long ago that the 
price paid for Jesus would go to buy 
land in the potters' field for a burial 
place. You remember that Judas cast 
the thirty pieces of silver in the temple 
and the Hebrew priest gathered up the 
same, and used the money to purchase 
the potters' field. 

The prophet said the Messiah would 
make His grave with the rich in His 
death. Our Lord Jesus was buried in 
the sepulchre of a rich man. 

LET us RECAPITULATE. 

The Messiah was to be born of a 
virgin. 



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He was to be born in Bethlehem of 
Judea. 

He was to come out of Egypt. 

He was to ride into Jerusalem on an 
ass' colt. 

He w^as to be betrayed by His sup- 
posed friend. 

He was to be sold for thirty pieces of 
silver. 

The price paid for Him was to be 
given for the potters' field. 

He was to be crucified among thieves. 

His enemies were to cast lots for His 
vesture. 

Not a bone of Him was to be broken. 

They were to loo'k upon Him w^hom 
they had pierced. 

He was to be buried in the tomb of 
a rich man. 

All these things were prophesied long 
before Jesus Christ was born into the 
world. Every reader of the New Tes- 
tament is aware that all of these pre- 
dictions were literally fulfilled in all 
their details. 



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There is no possible way to account 
for these prophecies and their fuhill- 
ment, unless we agree that the prophets 
who wrote them were inspired, and that 
Christ who fulfilled them is the Son of 
t>od. This same inspired book in Old 
Testament and New, teaches us that all 
those who truly repent of theii sins and 
trust in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be 
saved; that in His suffering and death 
upon the cross, and triumphant resur- 
rectio'n there is salvation full and free 
for all men from all sin. To His great 
name be glory and praise forever. The 
Bible is the word of God. Jesus Christ 
is the Son of God. He lived. He died. 
He arose again, and is at this very hour 
at the right hand of the Father making 
intercession for the sins of the people. 
He will come back again in great glory 
to reign and rule over those who trust 
in Him for salvation. 



LECTURE IV. 

PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GOSPEL 

DISPENSATION AND THE SECOND 

COMING OF CHRIST. 

In studying the prophecies concerning 
the Messiah, contained in their sacred 
writings, the Jews living on the earth 
during the period of our Lord's ministry 
among men, failed to get anything ap- 
proaching a proper conception of 
Christ's person and mission in the 
world. To the ordinary reader of the 
Scriptures, it seems quite remarkable 
that the Jews should have so misunder- 
stood, hated, and persecuted the Lord 
Jesus. To us it seems that His per- 
sonality, teachings, and life fitted so 
perfectly into the prophecies concerning 
Him that anyone at all acquainted wrth 
those prophecies would have identified 
Him at once as the Messiah. 

Why did the Jews fail to understand 
and recognize Jesus as the Messiah? 
First of all, they v/ere in a fearful state 

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of spiritual apostasy and blindness. 
Spiritual things are spiritually discern- 
ed and they were without this divine il- 
lumination so necessary to understand 
the things of God. 

Second, they did not understand that 
it was the plan of God that Christ in 
accomplishing the task assigned Him, 
was to come twice into the world. No 
one in ancient or modern times can 
rightly divide, properly understand, or 
correctly interpret the Scriptures who 
does not recognize this fact. If we de- 
sire to get anything approaching a cor- 
rect and satisfactory comprehension of 
the true meaning of prophecy, concern- 
ing Jesus Christ, v/e must divide those 
prophecies into at least two general 
groups. These groups might be sub- 
divided into several other groups. 

There is a group of prophecies which 
foretells Christ's corning, suffering and 
death, with the inauguration of the Gos- 
per Dispensation. There is another 
group of prophecies that tells of Christ's 
coming in power, to set up His kingdom 
and reign over His redeemed people, 
clearly indicating the glory and power 
of that kingdom and reign. The Jews 



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failed to understand this great fact, and 
as a consequence they could not rightly 
divide and properly group the prophe- 
cies concerning the Messiah. They lost 
sight of all those prophecies that 
referred to the humiliation and 
sufferings of Christ, and fixed their 
minds only upon those prophecies which 
pointed to the restoration of Israel, the 
overthrow of their enemies, and the 
glorious rule and reign of their Messiah. 
In their thinking and planning they 
cut out the gospel, or Church age, en- 
tirely, and put the kingdom age in its 
place. They had so misread the predic- 
tion and promises of the prophets that 
they were not looking for a Redeemer 
from sin to set up a kingdom of right- 
eousness, peace and joy in the hearts of 
men. In their spiritual blindness they 
had no conception or desire for a Savior 
from. sin. They did not desire spiritual 
salvation. They wanted political sal- 
vation. They were not looking for an 
evangelist preaching righteousness, but 
for a king 'breaking the yoke of Rome. 
There were the Scriptures before them. 
Isaiah had declared in chapter 32:1, 2, 
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iiess, and princes shall rule in judgment. 
And a man shall be as a hiding place 
from the wind, and as a covert from 
the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry 
place ; as a shadow of a great rock in a 
weary land." 

Jeremiah had said in chapter 23, 
verses 4 and 5, and part of 6th verse: 
''And I will set up shepherds over them, 
which shall feed them, and they shall 
fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither 
shall they be lacking, saith the Lord. 
Behold, the day is come saith the Lord, 
that I will raise up unto David a right- 
eous Branch, and a King shall reign and 
prosper and shall execute judgment and 
justice in the earth. In his days Judah 
shall be saved and Israel shall dwell 
safely." 

Daniel in explaining Nebuchadnez- 
zar's dream, had said, "And in the days 
of these kings shall the God of heaven 
set up a kingdom, which shall never be 
destroyed ; and the kingdom shall not be 
left to other people, but it shall break 
in pieces and consume all these king- 
doms and it shall stand forever." It 
never occurred to the Jews for a mo- 
ment that while all these scriptures 



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were absolutely true, and had reference 
to the hum'ble Nazarene standing in 
their midst, that the fulfillment of these 
prophecies belonged to a future age in 
the history of the world, an entirely 
different dispensation of the grace of 
God — a time far removed from the time 
in which they were living. The Jews 
v/ere 'blinded with sin, prejudices and 
ambition. No people in any age, in 
such a state of mind, can discern cor- 
rectly the simplest truths of God. 

When the meek and lowly Christ ap- 
peared among them, claiming to be the 
long promised Messiah, they could see 
nothing in Him that met their concep- 
tion of their coming King. They were 
disgusted and angered with His claims, 
and with the rebukes He administered 
to them. They were startled as they 
saw the influence He had over the mass- 
es of the people and determined to put 
Him to death for fear that His follow- 
ers would inaugurate a revolt against 
the authority of Rome, which they were 
quite sure would lead to severe ven- 
geance and a more tyrannical adminis- 
tration of Roman rule. They hated Je- 
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ed to take His life as a sort of political 
necessity. In their blindness they had 
no real conception of what they were 
doing. While suffering on the cross, 
Jesus looked down on the jeering mob 
and prayed, ''Father, forgive them; 
they know not what they do.'' 

These Jews could not possibly under- 
stand Christ, or properly interpret the 
prophecies concerning Him, because 
they did not understand that in the 
great scheme of human salvation and 
restoration of divine order in the world 
it was the plan of God that Christ was 
to come twice into the world. The ttrst 
time He was to make His advent 
through the open door of the stable ; the 
second time He was to make His advent 
from the open heaven. The first time 
He was to come in great humiliation; 
the second time He was to come in great 
glory. The first time He was to ride 
into Jerusalem on an ass's colt ; the sec- 
ond time He was to ride into Jerusalem 
on a cloud of glory. The first time He 
was to hang upon the cross and die 
amidst the derision of the multitude; 
the second time He was to sit upon the 
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in glory over His redeemed peoples. 

All of these facts were plainly writ- 
ten in the prophetical Scriptures, but 
the Jewish people had so misread proph- 
ecy that they got their program at least 
two thousand years ahead of the divine 
plan. A large portion of the Christian 
Church under the New Dispensation has 
so failed to understand the prophecies 
that she has gotten her program two 
thousand years behind the divine plan. 
The Jews wanted to put the Messiah on 
the throne, when in the divine order He 
Vas due on the cross. They wanted to 
be crowning a king, when they should 
have been worshiping the Babe of Beth- 
lehem. A large per cent, of the Chris- 
tian Church want to linger about Beth- 
lehem, worshiping the Babe cradled in 
.the manger, when they ought to be trim- 
ming their lamps and putting on their 
white robes to meet their coming King. 
The Jews ignored Christ as a Savior, 
and -clamored for the restoration of Is- 
rael. The Christians largely overlook 
the prophecies concerning our coming 
King, and desired to build up a great 
ecclesiasticism. 

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failed because they did not understand 
that Christ must needs come twice into 
the World. For this reason they v/ere 
not a'ble to divide the prophecies con- 
rcerning Him, placing one group about 
the humiliation and sufferings of His 
first coming, and the other group about 
the power and glory of His second com- 
ing. The Christian Church has largely 
failed in her great mission in the world 
for the same reason. 

The program of Christ was to come 
into the world, meek and lowly, to live 
l)ef ore men, and teach them the way of 
salvation, to die for them, and to set 
on foot an aggressive evangelism, which 
is to make haste in carrying the gospel 
through all the world to every creature. 
While this evangelism was going for- 
ward He was to go and prepare a place 
for His people. When the gospel had 
been preached through all the world for 
a witness, He was to return in the 
clouds and catch away His bride, the 
true Church, and then the wicked mul- 
titudes who have rejected the gospel in 
the spirit of lawlessness and anarchy 
will bring upon themselves ''The Great 
Tribulation." Then Christ will return 



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with His Church and cast Satan out of 
the world and reign over the earth in 
peace and righteousness for a thousand 
years. After that thousand years of 
reigning, Satan will 'be loosed for a little 
season, and then the end Will come, 
bringing in the final judgment. 

Almost two thousand years have 
passed since Christ commissioned His 
disciples to go into all the world and 
preach the gospel to every creature, and 
yet there are hundreds of millions of 
people within sixty days' travel of this 
spot, who have never heard of Jesus 
Christ. Why has the Church failed to 
accomplish the work assigned her by 
our Lord? Because she has set up a 
program of her own entirely out of har- 
mony with the divine plan. She has 
said, "Our Lord delayeth His coming." 
Let us rule the earth. She has substi- 
tuted evangelism with ecclesiasticism. 
The men who ought to have gone carry- 
ing the gospel to neglected millions, 
have sought office and power in the ec- 
clesiasticism. The money that should 
have been used to spread the gospel 
among the lost multitudes, has been ex- 
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Bishops, Secretaries, and a great host 
of officials, both in the Roman Catholic 
and the Protestant Churches. Church 
dignitaries have lived in pomp and lux- 
ury while the heathen have gone une- 
vangelized. Meanwhile this army of 
ecclesiastical officials has drawn the 
minds of the people away from the sav- 
ing gospel, the coming of Christ, ana 
His kingdom in the world, and the im- 
portance of careful preparation for that 
great event, and have filled their minds 
with sectarian prejudice, denomination- 
al strife and bitterness. 

The money that should have built a 
chapel on every hill and in every valley 
in all heathen lands, has gone into vast 
temples, gorgeous cathedrals, and mag- 
nificent churches. Millions of dollars 
have been used to pile up great towers, 
and lofty domes, not built out of a pure 
love of the Christ, or any thought of the 
world's evangelization or the Lord's 
return, but built out of a spirit of sec- 
tarian pride, and ecclesiastical strife, 
and ambition to eclipse other ecclesias- 
tical organizations. 

Had the Church properly interpreted 
prophecy, had she understood that 



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Christ in harmony with the divine pro- 
gram, was coming twice into the world, 
the first to suffer, die, and set on foot 
the Gospel Dispensation, to send out an 
earnest evangelism, to sweep speedily 
over the earth, offering repentance and 
salvation to the race — of course, estab- 
lishing the Church with the pastorate 
in the wakie of this ever advancing 
evangelistic movement, until the human 
race should hear the gospel, and then 
that Christ should come again in glory 
and power to cast out Satan, overthrow 
wickedness, and reign and rule in right- 
eousness. We say, had the Church prop- 
erly interpreted prophecy, how differ- 
ent her history would 'be written. 

With what zeal the early disciples 
who saw and understood the great truth 
of our Lord's return, spread the gospel ! 
How rapidly, without railroads, 
steamships, automobiles, or any of the 
modern methods of rapid transit they 
carried the gospel to the various nations 
and people of their time, and this too, 
without an organized Church, with rich 
treasuries to meet their expenses, with- 
out any Boards or Secretaries to direct 
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was a command and promise from their 
Lord and Master. The command was, 
''Go ye into all the world and preach the 
gospel/' and the promise was, ''Lo, I 
am with you alway, even unto the end 
of the world/' 

How quickly the Church of today, 
with her millions of members, and hun- 
dreds of millions of money, methods of 
travel, wireless telegraphy, the printing 
press, and close touch with the ends of 
the earth, with open doors to every na^ 
tion, could carry the gospel to every 
creature, if she could only grasp the 
great truth that the mission of Jesus 
Christ in the world was not to set up 
ecclesiasticisms, to debate and war with 
each other in their strife and bitterness, 
losing sight of the great doctrines of 
regeneration, sanctification, the spread 
of the gospel to all nations, and the 
coming of the Lord. 

There are no prophecies in the Old 
Testament that indicate that Christ 
would be crowned King of a universal 
empire at His first coming into the 
world. There are no prophecies in the 
Old Testament indicating that the Gos- 
pel Dispensation will bring in a day of 



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universal peace and righteousness on 
the earth. 

There is not a hint in the teachings 
of Christ, or His inspired apostles, that 
during the Gospel Dispensation the en- 
tire population of the world will be 
brought to repentance, saving faith, and 
into harmony with God and peace and 
fellowship among all men. 

Inspired teaching is the exact reverse 
of this. Jesus Christ said to His dis- 
ciples, ''Behold, I send you forth as 
sheep among wolves." He promised 
them nothing in this world but crosses, 
reproach, self-sacrifice and suffering. 
In the midst of all this they were to 
have spiritual victory. He said to them, 
"In the world ye shall have tribulation, 
but be of good cheer, I have overcome 
the world.'' In the parable of the tares 
and the wheat, we are taught that this 
dispensation is to be one of mixed good 
and evil, and will be so until the harvest 
time, the end of the dispensation when 
the separation shall take place. Jesus 
teaches that at His coming to catch 
away His bride many will be unprepar- 
ed to receive Him. This truth is brought 
out with great force in the parable of 
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If the preaching of the gospel is to 
bring in the millennium of perfect social 
conditions, the purity of men, and the 
glory of God upon the earth, and at the 
end of this golden age Jesus is to come, 
how is it that this parable of the wise 
and foolish virgins so clearly teaches 
that when He does 'come a large per 
>cent. of those who have some knowledge 
of Him and some ^belief in Him will be 
unprepared to meet Him. If the post- 
millennial teaching is true, the parables 
of the wheat and the tares and the wise 
and foolish virgins, are incap'able of in- 
telligent interpretation. The postmil- 
lennial teaching of the Lord's coming no 
more harmonizes with the teachings of 
the New Testament than the Jewish 
notion of the Messiah appearing as 
King of kings and Lord of lords at His 
first coming into the world, harmonizes 
with the Old Testament teaching. 

Let us with humility and reverence 
inquire of the Lord about this matter. 
''Gracious Master, will the preaching of 
the gospel have such a blessed effect up- 
on the world that everybody on the 
earth will be saved and ready to meet 
thee at thy coming?'' Find His ans- 



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wer in Matthew 24 :7th and 14th verses : 
*'Tor nation shall rise against nation, 
and kingdom against kingdom; and 
there shall be famines, and pestilences, 
and earthquakes, in divers places. All 
these are the beginning of sorrows. 
Then shall they deliver you up to be 
afflicted, and shall kill you ; and ye shall 
be hated of all nations for my name's 
sake. And then shall many be offended, 
and shall betray one another, and shall 
hate one another. And many false 
prophets shall arise, and shall deceive 
many. And because iniquity shall 
abound, the love of many shall wax colcL 
But he that shall endure unto the end, 
the same shall be saved. And this gos- 
pel of the kingdom shall be preached in 
the world for a witness unto all na- 
tions: and then shall the end come." 

"But Lord, some people think there 
will be a thousand years of perfect peace 
and happiness on the earth, just before 
thy coming. Please tell us about this." 

"Immediately after the tribulation of 
those days shall the sun be darkened, 
and the moon shall not give her light, 
and the stars shall fall from heaven, 
and the powers of the heavens shall be 



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shaken: And then shall appear the 
sign of the Son of man in heaven : and 
then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see tlie Son of 
man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with great power and great glory. And 
He shall seend His angels with a great 
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gath- 
er together His elect from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the 
other. Now learn a parable of the fig- 
tree; when his branch is yet tender, 
and putteth forth leaves, ye know that 
summer is nigh : So likewise ye, when 
ye shall see all these things, know that 
it is near, even at the doors." 

''But, Lord, will not the preachers so 
understand and explain thy Word to 
the people that they will all comprehend 
the divine plan and be saved, and be ex- 
pecting thee and ready to receive thee 
with joy at thy coming?'' 

The Lord's answer to this question 
proves the postmillennial doctrine ut- 
terly unscriptural. He says : 

'Tor as in the days that were before 
the flood they were eating and drink- 
ing, marrying and giving in marriage, 
until the day that Noe entered into the 



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ark, and knew not, until the flood came, 
and took them all away; so shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be. Then 
shall two be in the field; the one shall 
be taken, and the other left. Two wom- 
en shall be grinding at the mill ; the one 
shall be taken, and the other left. Watch 
therefore; for ye know not what hour 
your Lord doth come.'' 

V/hat are we to think of men who, in 
the light of these words of Jesus Christ, 
will persist in telling us that our Lord 
delays His coming, for ten, fifty, a hun- 
dred thous'and, or perhaps a million 
years ; and that the ecclesiastical forces 
of this world will bring all men into a 
state of perfect peace and righteous- 
ness before the Lord comes? Mean- 
while an apostate church is tearing up 
the Bible, denying the deity of Christ, 
defending and excusing sin, and ridicul- 
ing the idea of Christian Holiness. 

At the present time almost every 
white soldier in the European war has 
been baptized in the name of the Lord 
Jesus. The British are members of the 
Episcopal Church, the Germans are 
members of the Lutheran and Catholic 
churches, the Russians belong to the 



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Greek Church, the Austrians, French 
and Belgians are Roman Catholics. The 
inhabitants of the Belgian State are 
largely members of the Roman and 
Greek churches. These great masses 
of church members, fighting and killing 
each other, with their religious teach- 
ers and leaders, know little more of the 
real Gospel, the plan of God, the mis- 
sion of Christ to save men and His sec- 
ond coming to reign over them, than 
did the Jewish people who lived on the 
earth at the time of Christ's ministry 
among men. 

Our only hope for the v/orld is the 
boming of our Lord to set up His king- 
dom and rule among men ; then, and not 
until then, will there be universal peace 
and happiness. Ask the Apostle Paul 
if he believes the entire human family 
will 'be saved before the coming of 
Christ, and he will answer you in 1st 
Thess. 5:3-6: 'Tor when they shall say, 
peace and safety; then sudden destruc- 
tion Cometh upon them, as travail upon 
a w^oman with child ; and they shall not 
escape. But ye, brethren, are not in 
darkness, that that day should overtake 
you as a thief. Ye are all the children 



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of light, and the children of the day. 
We are not of the light, nor of darkness. 
Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others ; 
but let us watch and be sdber." 

This admonition of the apostle, '*Let 
us not sleep, as do others," shows that 
when our Lord comes He will find some 
who are spiritually asleep in unprepar- 
edness. He tells us that sudden de- 
struction will come upon them. Sudden 
destruction could not come upon any- 
body at the coming of the Lord if the 
postmillennial theory was correct, and 
everybody had been saved for a thou- 
sand years before the coming of the 
Lord. 

The whole tenor and teaching of the 
Scriptures plainly reveal the fact that 
when Jesus Christ shall appear in His 
glory multitudes of people will be un- 
prepared to receive Him. Paul in his 
letter to Timothy reminds him that the 
"Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the 
latter times some shall depart from the 
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, 
and doctrines of devils; speaking lies 
in hypocrisy, and having their con- 
science seared with a hot iron." 

Note also 2nd Timothy, 3d chapter, 



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first to third verses: 'This know 
also, that in the last days per- 
ilous times shall come. For men 
shall be lovers of their own selves, 
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, 
disobedient to parents, unthankful, un- 
holy. Without natural affection, truce- 
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, 
fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of 
pleasure, more than lovers of God ; hav- 
ing a form of godliness, but denying the 
power thereof: from such turn away." 

These words of Paul to Timothy make 
it very clear that he was not postmil- 
lennial in his views. He tells us that 
these will be the conditions existing in 
the world when Christ appears; and 
this teaching of Paul harmonizes per- 
fectly with the teachings of Christ. 

Let us put the Apostle Peter on the 
witness stand and see what he has to 
say on this subject. You will find that 
he does not expect the present Gospel 
Dispensation to bring everybody into a 
state of full salvation. In his second 
epistle, chapter 3, he says: "Knowing 
this first, that there shall come in the 
last days scoffers, walking after their 



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own lusts, and saying, Where is the 
promise of His coming? for since the 
fathers fell asleep, all things continue 
as they were from the beginning of the 
creation. For this they willingly are 
ignorant of, that by the word of God the 
heavens were of old, and the earth 
standing out of the water and in the 
water. Whereby the world that then 
was, being overflowed with water, per- 
ished.'^ 

The 10th verse of this same chapter 
is very suggestive, and shows us that 
the second coming of Christ will be at 
a time when the people are not expect- 
ing Him. Peter says : "But the day of 
the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night." The 14th verse exhorts us with 
the following impressive language: 
''Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you 
look for such things, be diligent that 
ye may be found of Him in peace, with- 
out spot and blameless." In the 17th 
verse of this same chapter, we are 
warned against the possibility of ''Be- 
ing led away with the error of the wick- 
ed, and falling from our stedfastness." 

So it is clearly revealed that up to 
the end of this age of gospel opportu- 



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nity, Satan will be in the world, temp- 
tation and sin on every hand and we 
are to watch and pray while we await 
the coming of the Bridegroom. Through- 
out the gospel age men may accept or 
reject the Lord Jesus, and many will 
reject the gospel as they always have 
done. The millennium age will begin 
when John's vision is fulfilled, which is 
described in Revelation 20th, 1st to 6th 
verses : ''And I saw an angel come down 
from heaven, having the key of the bot- 
tomless pit and a great chain in his 
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, 
that old serpent, which is the Devil, and 
Satan, and bound him a thousand years. 
And cast him into the bottomless pit, 
and shut him up, and set a seal upon 
him, that he should deceive the nations 
no more, till the thousand years should 
be fulfilled : and after that he must be 
loosed a little season. And I saw 
thrones, and they sat upon them and 
judgment was given unto them: and I 
saw the souls of them that were behead- 
ed for the witness of Jesus, and for the 
word of God, and which had not wor- 
shipped the beast, neither his image, 
neither had received his mark upon 



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their foreheads, or in their hands ; and 
they lived and reigned with Christ a 
thousand years. But the rest of the 
dead lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished. This is the first 
resurrection. Blessed and holy is he 
that hath part in the first resurrection : 
on such the second death hath no pow- 
er, but they shall be priests of God and 
of Christ, and shall reign with Him a 
thousand years." 

Then shall be fulfilled all those splen- 
did prophecies concerning the glory of 
the Messiah's kingdom and reign, which 
the Jews in their misunderstanding of 
the prophecy expected to be fulfilled 
when Jesus came into the world to in- 
troduce the Gospel Dispensation, and 
die upon the cross for lost humanity. 
Those Christians who have misread 
prophecy and believe that the preaching 
of the gospel will bring in the millenni- 
um are just as certainly doomed to dis- 
appointment as were those Jews who 
expected Jesus to restore Israel and set 
up His kingdom in the world two thou- 
sand years ago. 

When Christ comes the second time, 
then a nation will be born in a day ; then 



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shall that petition in our Lord's prayer 
be answered, *'Thy kingdom come, Thy 
will he done on earth as the angels do 
it in heaven/' Then will the kingdoms 
of this world become the kingdoms of 
our Lord Jesus Christ. Then shall the 
knowledge of the glory of the Lord cov- 
er the earth as the waters cover the sea. 

The wheels of time are turning rap- 
idly. Events in history are crowding 
in rapid succession upon each other. 
The prophecies that must be fulfilled 
before the coming of our Lord are al- 
most complete. The entire thinking 
world is expecting some great event, 
some tremendous crisis. There are four 
great prophecies that will be fulfilled 
just before the appearing of our Lord 
Jesus in His glory. 

First, the gospel of the kingdom must 
be preached to all nations. 

Second, there must come a great 
apostasy in the Church. 

Third, the Jews must return to Je- 
rusalem. 

Fourth, there must come great trib- 
ulation on the earth. 

All of these prophecies are now being 
rapidly fulfilled before our eyes, and ev- 



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idently in the not distant future the 
predictions contained in this book, Old 
Testament and New, from Prophets, 
Christ and the Apostles, shall have been 
fulfilled, and our Lord shall appear in 
His glory. May He grant us grace to 
be prepared to met Him with joy. 



LECTURE V. 

THE GLORIOUS REIGN OF CHRIST. 

The Book of Revelation is a propheti- 
cal book abounding in figures and 
striking imagery. It is an unveiling of 
those tremendous tragedies in human 
history that are to take place as we ap- 
proach the end of the Gospel Dispensa- 
tion. 

In the beginning of this book we have 
this language, which seems to have been 
largely overlooked by most Bible read- 
ers: ''Blessed is he that readeth, and 
they that hear the words of this proph- 
ecy, and keep those things which are 
written therein: for the time is at 
hand." Rev. 1:3. 

There is fixed in the mindss of men a 
great and comforting faith that some 
time in the history of the human race, 
between this and the great Judgment 
Day, there is coming upon this earth a 
great triumph of peace over war, of 

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right over wrong, of plenty over want, 
of happiness over sorrow, when error 
shall be dethroned and truth shall reign 
in righteousness 

Philosophers have dreamed of this 
time and longed for the tranquillity and 
peace it will bring. Statesmen have 
seen it from afar and called it 'The Gol- 
den Age/' Poets have sung of it in the 
moments of their highest inspiration. 
All of these torches of human hopeful- 
ness that have illuminated the rugged 
pathway of the fallen race, were light- 
ed from the fires that burned in the 
hearts of the ancient prophets who, in 
the ages gone, promised that the 
kingdoms of this world shall be- 
come the kingdoms of our Lord 
Jesus Christ; that the time will 
come when the implements of war will 
be beaten into implements of husband- 
ry, and the knowledge of the glory of 
the Lord will cover the earth as the 
waters cover the sea. Christians call 
this age of Christ's triumph and reign 
the Millennium. 

In the 20th chapter of the book of 
Revelation we have a most graphic de- 
scription of the inauguration of this 



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glorious age. Those persons who are 
unfriendly to the thought of Christ's 
reiign on earth for a thousand years, 
have said that this passage in Revela- 
tion is the only Scripture of its kind 
to be found in the Bible. It is quite 
evident that such persons have not had 
eyes to see the plainly written v/ord of 
God. 

The angels who stood by the disciples 
when Jesus ascended into heaven said 
to them, "In like manner shall He re- 
turn again.'' In 1 Thess. 4:15 and 18, 
we have from the pen of the Apostle 
Paul a most graphic description of the 
return of our Lord. ''For this we say 
unto you by the Word of the 
Lord, that we which are alive 
and remain unto the coming of the 
Lord shall not prevent them which 
are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall 
descend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of the archangel, and with the 
trump of God, and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first : Then we which are alive 
and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the 
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever 
be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort 
one another with these words." 



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Zechariah 14:4, is in perfect harmo- 
ny with Paul in Thessalonians and the 
20th chapter of Revelation. He says: 
**And His feet shall stand in that day 
upon the Mount of Olives, which is be- 
fore Jerusalem on the east, and the 
Mount of Olives shall cleave in the 
midst thereof toward the east and to- 
ward the west, and there shall be a very 
great valley : And half of the mountain 
shall remove toward the north, and half 
of it toward the south/' 

Daniel 7:27, is in perfect agreement 
with Zechariah, Paul and Revelation. 
*'And the kingdom and dominion, and 
the greatness of the kingdom under the 
whole heaven, shall be given to the peo- 
ple of the saints of the most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting king- 
dom, and all dominions shall serve and 
obey Him/' 

In the light of these Scriptures, the 
20th chapter of Revelation does not ap- 
pear so lonely as by some had been sup- 
posed. 

But, you say, if Christ is to reign on 
the earth a thousand years, it would 
seem that there would be some refer- 
ence in the Bible to the condition of 



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things that will exist during that thou- 
sand years ; something of what will oc- 
cupy man during that glorious period. 
We are glad that the Holy Scriptures 
are not silent on this subject. Zechari- 
ah gives us a most interesting passage 
with reference to that glorious period. 
Let us read the 14th chapter, verses 8 
to 11, and 16 to 20. '^And it shall be 
in that day, that living waters shall go 
out from Jerusalem; half of them to- 
ward the former sea, and half of them 
toward the hinder sea: in summer and 
in winter shall it be. And the Lord 
shall be king over all the earth : in that 
day shall there be one Lord, and His 
name one. All the land shall toe turned 
as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south 
of Jerusalem : and it shall be lifted up, 
and inhabited in her place, from Ben- 
jamin's gate unto the place of the first 
gate, unto the corner gate, and from the 
tower of Hananeel unto the king's wine 
presses. And men shall dwell in it, and 
there shall be no more utter destruction : 
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhab- 
ited.'' 

"And it shall come to pass, that every 
one that is felt of all the nations which 



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came against Jerusalem shall even go 
up from year to year to worship the 
King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the 
feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, 
that whoso will not come up of all the 
families of the earth unto Jerusalem to 
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, 
even upon them shall be no rain. And 
if the family of Egypt go not up, and 
come not, that have no rain ; there shall 
be the plague, wherewith the Lord will 
smite the heathen that come not up to 
keep the feast of tabernacles. This 
shall be the punishment of Egypt, and 
the punishment of all nations that come 
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.'^ 

"In that day shall there be upon the 
bells of the horses, holiness unto the 
Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house 
shall be like the bowls before the altar." 

There are many other impressive and 
beautiful passages of scripture describ- 
ing this wonderful reign of our blessed 
Redeemer, but we shall only call your 
attention to one more, found in Isaiah 
65th chapter, from 19th to the 25th 
verse. "And I will rejoice in Jerusa- 
lem, and joy in my peopie: and the 
voice of weeping shall be no more heard 



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in her, nor the voice of crying. There 
shall be no more thence an infant of 
days, nor an old man that hath not filled 
his days : for the child shall die an hun- 
dred years old ; but the sinner being an 
hundred years old shall be accursed. 
And they shall build houses, and inhabil 
them; and they shall plant vineyards, 
and eat the fruits of them. They shal\ 
not build, and another inhabit; they 
shall not plant, and another eat : for as 
the days of a tree are the days of my 
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy 
the work of their hands. They shall not 
labour in vain, nor bring forth for 
trouble; for they are the seed of the 
blessed of the Lord, and their offspring 
with them. And it shall come to pass 
that before they call, I will answer ; 
and while they are yet speaking, I will 
hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed 
together, and the lion shall eat straw 
like the bullock: and dust shall be the 
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor 
destroy in all my. holy mountain, saith 
the Lord." 

Some devout people have been unable 
to get the second coming of Christ di- 
vorced in their mind from the thought 



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of the general judgment. It will be 
seen that in the 20th chapter of Revela- 
tion the second coming of our Lord and 
the general judgment are separated by 
a thousand years and a little season. 
After the thousand years of the reign 
of Christ, Satan is to be loosed. These 
prophecies which we have just read are 
a description of conditions that will ex- 
ist during the thousand years of Christ's 
reign. It is not describing a heavenly 
state but an earthly state — conditions 
that will exist in this world after Satan 
is bound and Jesus Christ is reigning in 
righteousness. 

Then all of those splendid Scriptures 
that the Jews were so eager and so ex- 
pectant of seeing fulfilled when Christ 
was on earth at His first coming, will 
be gloriously realized. You remember 
that the disciples themselves were deep- 
ly interested in the reign of Jesus and 
were expecting to see Him set up His 
kingdom. It was with this expectation 
in mind that James and John went to 
Jesus, asking for the right and left hand 
seats in His glory during His trium- 
phant reign in Jerusalem. It was with 
this thought in mind, after the resur- 



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rection that the disciples said, "Lord, 
wilt thou at this time restore again the 
kingdom of Israel?'' 

Revelation teaches that when the 
thousand years of Christ's reign is 
ended, Satan shall be loosed for a little 
season. That little season shall come 
to an end when the Lord appears, cast- 
ing Satan into the pit, sitting upon the 
great white throne, and assembling the 
world to the final judgment. The com- 
ing of the Lord draweth nigh, but the 
final judgment day is something more 
than a thousand years in the future. 

Let us not forget that the rapture is 
to occur before the visible coming of 
the Lord. The bride is to be caught 
away in the air, is to be taken up to be 
with Jesus. Like the eight persons in 
the ark were brought into a place of 
safety while the flood destroyed the 
wicked world, so the saints of the Lord, 
the Bride of Christ, sometime, we know 
not when, are to be caught away out of 
the earth's turmoil and strife, and to 
be kept in peace and safety during the 
great tribulation. They are to come 
back with Jesus when He appears Visi- 
bly to set up His kingdom. 



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Just as John the Baptist ran before 
our Lord at His first coming to pre- 
pare the way for the Master, so the 
great modern revival and missionary- 
movement is a mighty John the Baptist, 
running before the second coming of 
our Lord to prepare for Him a bride. 
Let us be sure that we are washed, sanc- 
tified, tried and made white, and have 
on the wedding garm.ent of righteous- 
ness when our Lord shall come and 
catch away His bride. 



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